{"id":263275,"date":"2017-11-07T16:47:27","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T00:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=263275"},"modified":"2017-11-07T16:47:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T00:47:27","slug":"walt-harris-plans-appeal-disqualification-mark-godbeer-ufc-217","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/walt-harris\/walt-harris-plans-appeal-disqualification-mark-godbeer-ufc-217\/","title":{"rendered":"Walt Harris Plans to Appeal His Disqualification Against Mark Godbeer at UFC 217"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It wouldn&#8217;t be a UFC card in New York without a little bit of controversy. Walt Harris had Mark Godbeer in a bad way, but due to a questionable glancing knee and a follow-up illegal kick, he ended up losing the fight in a rare disqualification. The referee was running and yelling at Harris to stop the action, but Harris followed through with his technique and Godbeer stated he could not continue. After speaking to Dana White at UFC 217, Walt Harris decided he will appeal the official decision.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I spoke with Dana right afterward, and he told me to contest it. He told me to appeal it. He said he felt like, you know, there\u2019s a replay and I had a chance to win if I appealed. And that\u2019s what I\u2019m going to do. I feel like, at worst, it should have been a no-contest. If you remember, Curtis Blaydes and Aleksei Oleinik had the same type of situation, and they gave Curtis the win.\u00a0I don\u2019t understand how mine just went straight to a disqualification when there was conclusive evidence on the replay that the knee didn\u2019t land low and I was in the heat of the fight. It wasn\u2019t like the ref had put his hands on me, stopped my momentum, and then I took off and went and hit him. I was in the middle of a combination. So, to just go straight to a disqualification is like \u2013 I don\u2019t understand it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DQ? No way No contest if anything! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkGodbeerUK?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MarkGodbeerUK<\/a> wanted out and he found a way! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LossForTheFans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LossForTheFans<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 walt harris (@thebigticket205) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thebigticket205\/status\/927111966967193601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;[Mark Godbeer] said I cheated; he said he\u2019d fight me again. I\u2019m like, \u2018Bro, you had the chance to fight me. Take your five minutes, and then get yourself together and come back and fight.\u2019 He took the easy way out. Point blank, period. I don\u2019t care what anybody says. He took the easy way out. He knows it. His camp knows it. Everybody in that arena knew it. So don\u2019t sit here \u2013 he\u2019s yelling and screaming back and forth with me. I basically called him a b-tch. Because that\u2019s what I felt in the moment. He b-tch\u2019d out. He took the easy way out. He knew he was losing the fight. And he knew it was just a matter of time before I put him away. He quit, bottom line. I feel like he could\u2019ve continued. There\u2019s been numerous fights where I was hit low.&#8221;\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2017\/11\/walt-harris-appeal-dq-loss-ufc-217-mark-godbeer-cheated-the-fans\/amp\">Walt Harris speaking to MMA Junkie<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Walt Harris went on to say that Godbeer is actually the one who cheated him\u00a0\u2013 and the fans\u00a0\u2013 by not continuing the fight. There haven&#8217;t been many instances where a decision was overturned, but perhaps with the new instant replay they can analyze the tape more deeply and discover some truth in what Walt Harris is saying. Don&#8217;t expect a rematch anytime soon though, Harris said he doesn&#8217;t see the point.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Oh and I\u2019m contesting that BS! Godbeer is a bitch! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC217?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFC217<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 walt harris (@thebigticket205) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thebigticket205\/status\/927016002575130624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 11\/7\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It wouldn&#8217;t be a UFC card in New York without a little bit of controversy. Walt Harris had Mark Godbeer in a bad way, but due to a questionable glancing knee and a follow-up illegal kick, he ended up losing the fight in a rare disqualification. 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